It's an important date not jt for gay Amerins, but for all
Contents:
- WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- GAY MARRIAGE
WHY JUNE 26 IS ALREADY A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAYS AND THE SUPREME COURT
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On Friday the Supreme Court led that gay Amerins had the right to marry every state the untry.
Bee June 26 isn’t jt an important date for gay Amerins– ’s a date that symboliz how rapidly change n happen Ameri, how quickly our attus n evolve, and how, when ed rrectly, our system is one that propels all towards a more equal state.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
As the Supreme Court nears a cisn on same-sex marriag, observers of Court history have noted that June 26 already has special signifince for cisns that have favored gay rights landmark s. * 6/26 gay marriage *
Only 11 years ago, 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to allow gay upl to marry.
In a ltle over a , gay marriage has gone om a provotive pipe dream to a legal and nstutnal right. June 26 isn’t jt a symbol of marriage equaly or gay rights– ’s a day that memorat a llective change of md, the Amerin abily to choose eedom and equaly.
As the Supreme Court nears a cisn on same-sex marriag, observers of Court history have noted that June 26 already has special signifince for cisns that have favored gay rights landmark s.
GAY MARRIAGE
The hight-profile Supreme Court w for gay and lbian rights, a cisn wrten for history, stopped short of what advot really wanted. Where do that leave the movement? * 6/26 gay marriage *
“[W]hat jtifitn uld there possibly be for nyg the benefs of marriage to homosexual upl exercisg ‘the liberty protected by the Constutn’?
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * 6/26 gay marriage *
Surely not the enuragement of procreatn, sce the sterile and the elrly are allowed to marry, ” Slia wrote back 2003, “What jtifitn uld there possibly be for nyg the benefs of marriage to homosexual upl? By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * 6/26 gay marriage *
As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.